- Thank you! I finally cleaned that up. Meanwhile started 3 more ..I have a habit of taking too long to finish a piece, then I lose interest in it and just start something else. I found 8 from recently i started and abandoned, that are decent enough to not delete, but not finished. There’s also been a number of drawings I felt I “outgrew” - became better before I finished them, and it would be easier to start from scratch than fix them. Anyone else thinking that?in24.5k
- Lady Death Fanart Collectible: Part 6 Polypaint and base Hi, it’s time to share with you another part of the process to create this fanart piece. Polypaint As this is my first collectible fanart I didn’t have previous experience with polypaint so I tried my best and played a bit with it.I wanted to give a ghostly and eerie look to Lady Death, she is beautiful and deadly, but at the end of the day she is a woman that died and was reborn at hell as an avenging spirit, that’s why I gave her skin tone a bluish very cold tone.As you will see I gave myself some creative freedom to deviate from the traditional color scheme that this characater has in comics and illustrations.To add a bit of sensuality by painting some freckles on the face and the chest. The dark nature of this character was the perfect excuse to gave her a kind of goth make up, very dark shadows around the eyes, blue lips and fingernails. I know that the original character includes sexy red lips but I wanted this girl to have a sexy but at the same time creepy look, that’s why we can see some thin veins emanating from her eyes. The biggest chromatic change I did for this character is at the hair. Lady Death has a characteristic white weavy hair but in my fanart I decided to gave her a very saturated blue color.The reason behind this wasn’t only an aesthetic choice. I want that the face area strongly pulls the attention of the viewer so this area needed a stronger contrast. Another reason is that I want her to have a more modern look, as I mentioned before, I’m strongly attracted to women with goth/punk look. I gave myself half an hour or more to analyse the work of experienced sculptors that create collectibles and I discovered that the use of darker values on the skin is often applied to create a greater sense of volume and three-dimensionality. I found that areas with heavy ambient occlusion are the perfect places to paint with darker colors in order to increase the separation between different forms. Even though she has a bluish skin tone, I used a bit of warmer hues in areas that, in real life, tend to go towards red and pink, this is very obvious in the nose, cheeks, and knuckles. Thinking with a logical mind it’s completely absurd to have warmer tones on the body of a zombie like creature but I didn’t want to limit myself by using only blue tones, it looks boring and artificial. In real life these colors are created by blood vessels in areas where the skin is very thin. ** Scythe **for her weapon I applied a cool gray with some warmer variations, this color scheme is influenced by the work of H.R giger. Base I’d like to talk about the design for the base which, to be honest, I forgot to develop along with the character.My main idea with the base is to show that Lady Death inhabits a very sterile and arid land, at the end of the day she is at hell.You can see a that she walks over dirt and rocks, a sign that she’s surrounded by death and loneliness. As part of the landscape we can see some bones and skulls to reinforce the idea of lack of living creatures, yet we can see three hands that try to reach her legs.This hands represent that all creatures are subordinated to her power and seek an evil blessing with a simple touch of the princess of the damned.1- The hand with skin burns represents the souls of those who are newcomers to hell, tortured souls that suffer for the sins comitted on earth.2- The hand with greenish rotten skin and pustules is the reminder of the decay that has infected the souls of those who have been trapped and have forgotten their humanity3- Last but not least, the hand of a demon shows that even dark creatures and entities bow before her presence. The cherry on the top, at least in my vision, are the simese twins that emerge from the ground, this malevolent creatures remind us that in hell there’s only perversion and any trace of innocence is lost. Thanks for reading till this pointI’m really happy to be very close to finish this creative journey, last but not least it’s mandatory to talk about splitting the sculpture in several pieces to be printed, this will be my last entry before showing the final rendered images. See yaMay Zbrush be with youin1.5k
- memory 2min gartic phone, used ref 2m gartic, used ref for pose 2min gartic 2min gartic 2min gartic 2min gartic memory memory memory memory study memory memory memorymemory memory memory memory memory memory study memorystudy study stylized left memory, right study study memory memorymemory memory memory memorymemory memory, porportions r offmemory memorystudystudy memorymemorymemory memory memory memory memory memory memory memory, right leg is a bit broken The feeling of only getting 1 - 3 likes on a social media post will never not be discouraging. But nothing is discouraging enough to make me quit drawing. I think the strategy of drawing a lot of stuff and waiting a while to post is good though rather than posting it immediately and then feeling that sadness on the next set of drawingin
- studies studies juri study imagination, how I feel before a speech imagination imagination study something I drew for my presentation also drew this for my presentation, didn't fix the one hand being bigger than the other imagination + study study studies study study, I need to fix the face a bit based on screenshot from anime but in my style study. except for the eye study studies studies study. changed some things tho imagination imagination imagination study studies, except top right samurai based on anime screenshot wolverine studies, changed some of the poses a lil, not very good at all, but first time i drew the character ever. semi study studies study imagination imagination imagination , for first time ever i tried to draw over 3d model for middle pose, I dont like the result tbh, but it makes it much easier than coming up with it from memory.imagination, except right figurestudies imagination + studies, coming up with action poses r hard, these are not dynamic enough, I will redraw better ones in future. imagination , imagination imagination study, except for eye imagination imagination imagination doodles except for the two chrollos imagination storyboard thumbnail, idk if i ever shared this. my storyboards end up being a little detailed since i usually just draw in one layer.in22.4k
Day 14? 15 maybe
8x 2min gesture drawings
Yeah, consistency.. I kinda, fell in that all too familiar art slump, I just didnt feel like drawing
I'm kind of out of it now? Maybe, I'm not sure, today i drew a little bit, i continued working on a little short comic and well, I did 8 gesture drawings...
I know thats not much, I won't progress fast if I keep up this slow and inconsistent pace, but sometimes you just, dont feel like doing anything.
I'll try updating more frequently, doing more exercises and not just gesture drawing, until then, i wish you all a wonderful day or night
Hey man, I know exactly what you mean by feeling like not doing anything, I had it all the time when I didn't woke up every single day on a specific time just so I can draw and keep the grind going.
These all look very good, you're definitely progressing keep that in mind and remember that you're still learning, even when going slow, giving up all together is far worse.
Keep the flow going, I know you can do it, maybe doing a strong routine each day for a couple of weeks will help, after those weeks you will want to draw every time you have spare time, it's all about getting into the habit of drawing everyday ;D Wish you a happy day or night
well even if you practiced a little that still practice like Luke said above its about building that habit up daily so it doesn't seem to daunting to practice or draw something every day. If it helps just focus on drawing something small or practicing a small bit because at the end of the day what matters is that you showed up to practice or draw and of course you won't progress as fast as you would have if you practice a lot every day, but those days that you consistently do it no matter how small still add up to you improving so you got this!
Thanks guys, I'm trying rn to get back into that daily habit, even if its just a 10 min doodle or something, just holding the pen and drawing, I think I got into that slump because I put too much on my plate, drawings that I'm still not capable of realizing xD I also didnt have that practice/personal project balance, so that took me down too. I just, yeah, approached big goals in a stupid way.
Day 16 i think
Hi, today was actually a pretty good day for me, in rl and drawing,
I did;
25 x 30sec gesture drawing
5 x 2min gesture drawing, this time i focused on exaggeration, thats really hard tbh, you first have to observe the figure and figure out how and where to exaggerate it, and once that's done half of the time is already up ._.
Heyyy, i think its day 19?
Welp anyway i didnt update for a few days again..bruh xD
I still continued doing my gesture exercises and working on my personal projects.
About a day ago the Arcane act 3 trailer came around and i just had to draw something for it,
so i started doing a couple of Vi doodles(scenes shown in the trailer)
they turned out quite good, so that made me happy,
another thing that happend that quite honestly sucks is that today i was diagnosed with scoliosis, i still dont know how sever it is, so i hope its just a mild case that wont influence my life any further. Anyway, thats all i got for today, have a wonderful night or day
Day 20
Todays warm up session:
I think i became a little bit stiff, and maybe my lines are too scratchy? idk
annnd 2 min poses, some of them were really difficult, i also began to add form lines again, and its really tricky to find a balance between too much and too little, idk xD
Thats it for today i guess, have a good night/day everyone
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